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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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why is it...that you can have nearly every organ in your body transplanted except a penis????
Also why cant us men donate our penis after we die...hehe
Any doctors on here know why?
Im happy with mine just curious to know. |
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By *plpxp2Couple
over a year ago
Middlesbrough |
Chines surgeons did it first in 2006:
Chinese surgeons have performed the world's first penis transplant on a man whose organ was damaged beyond repair in an accident this year. The incident left the man with a 1cm-long stump with which he was unable to urinate or have sexual intercourse. "His quality of life was affected severely," said Dr Weilie Hu, a surgeon at Guangzhou General Hospital.
Doctors spent 15 hours attaching a 10cm penis to the 44-year-old patient after the parents of a brain-dead man half his age agreed to donate their son's organ.
The procedure, described in a case study due to appear in the journal European Urology next month, represents a big leap forward in transplant surgery; it required complex microsurgery to connect nerves and tiny blood vessels.
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